Best French Style Roast Lamb Recipes

ROAST LEG OF LAMB FRENCH-STYLE (GIGOT D'AGNEAU A LA FRANCAISE)

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 425 degrees.
• It is recommended that you have the butcher remove and set aside the hipbone of the lamb. This is the upper bone that is attached to the main (straight) leg bone. This can also be done in the home kitchen, using a thin, sharp boning knife, neatly cutting all around the meat attached to the hipbone and severing the hipbone from the main bone. Cut off and discard the skin, leaving a light layer of fat.
• Rub the meat all over with the oil and sprinkle with salt, pepper and the thyme.
• Make 16 gashes in the flesh of the leg and insert the garlic slivers.
• Place the leg, the thickest side down, in a roasting pan and scatter around it the hipbone, onion halves (cut side down), bay leaves and carrot pieces.
• Place in the oven and bake one hour. Remove the lamb and pour off the fat from the pan.
• Return the lamb to the pan, the thickest side up.
• Pour the water into the pan and continue baking 30 minutes for medium-rare lamb (135 degrees internal temperature). If you wish the lamb well done, continue cooking 30 minutes or longer. In any event, remove the lamb from the oven, discarding the hipbone and vegetables, cover with foil and let it stand for 20 minutes before carving. Serve, if desired, with flageolet beans in cream.

FRENCH STYLE ROAST LAMB

Steps:

• Using an ice pick, punch holes in a lattice pattern over top and sides of lamb. Insert slices of garlic and alternating with ginger slices. In a small bowl heat mustard with honey, crushed garlic, rosemary and thyme, slowly heating in olive oil until thickened. Beat in soy sauce. Spread over lamb. Let stand 3-4 hours. Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Place lamb on a rack in pan and roast in oven for 15 minutes. Reduce oven to 350 degrees and contune to roast for 15-17 minutes per pound. Add beef broth to pan drippings for a lovely sauce. Meat should be at room temperature before putting in oven

ROAST LAMB FRENCH STYLE

Steps:

• Heat the butter and oil in a frying pan; add the onions and cook over a gentle heat until softened and just starting to colour.
• Place the potatoes in the bottom of a roasting pan, spoon the cooked onions over them; season with salt and pepper.
• Make small incisions all over the lamb and insert the garlic slices; place the lamb on a rack over the onions and potatoes. Season the leg well salt and pepper.
• Pour the stock over the potatoes and roast in a hot oven (200c) for the first 20 minutes, then lower the temperature to moderated (180c) and cook a further hour. This will give you medium cooked lamb, if you like your lamb a little better done, cook for a further 40 minutes.
• Carve the lamb in thick slices, lay it over the potatoes and onions, sprinkle with parsley and serve it in the dish it was cooked in Yum.

MOM'S FRENCH STYLE ROAST LAMB

Steps:

• Using an ice pick prick holes in a lattace pattern into the lamb. Insert slices of garlic and alternating with ginger root. In a small bowl heat mustard with honey crushed garlic rosemary and thyme. Slow heat in olive oil until thickened. Beat in soy sauce. Spread over lamb. Let stand 3 to 4 hours. Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Place lamb on a rack in pan and roast in oven for 15 minutes. Reduce oven to 350 degrees and continue cooking roast for 15 to 17 per pound. Add beef broth to pan for drippings for a sauce. Meat should be at room temperture before putting meat in oven to cook.